Restaurant Space
Restaurant space
for lease and sale.
Drive-thru pads, quick-service corners and second-generation kitchens to lease in Worcester County and beyond, and restaurant buildings for owner-operators who would rather buy. Tell us the concept and the seats, and we will match you to space, including space that is never publicly listed.
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Looking for restaurant space to lease?
Tell us the concept, the seats, the kitchen you need and the towns you would open in. We will tell you what is available to lease or buy, listed or not.
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What Makes a Restaurant Site
Kitchen, parking, and the license
A kitchen already in place
A hood, a cook line, a grease interceptor and the plumbing behind them are the expensive part of a restaurant. A space that was a restaurant keeps them, so a tenant who takes over a second-generation kitchen starts well ahead of one fitting out a bare storefront.
Parking and a road people drive
Outside the downtowns a restaurant lives on its parking and its traffic count. We give you both for every site: the New Bedford drive-thru pad sits by Route 140 at about 51,000 cars a day, and Thai House has 30 spaces on Route 9 at about 14,000.
The licenses are yours to get
A food permit never transfers to a new operator, and a liquor license moves only by a transfer the town and the state approve. A tenant applies for both, so the lease has to give enough time between signing and opening to get them.
To Lease
Sites for a counter or a window.
A quick-service operator needs a pad with a drive-thru lane, a corner with a light, and a road with the count to feed it. These are the restaurant sites we have to lease now.
440 Mt Pleasant Street, New Bedford: a ±4,561 SF former bank with its drive-thru canopy and pylon signage still in place, for lease at $18.00/SF NNN, with a separate pad on the same site for ground lease.
606 Southbridge Street, Auburn: a 2,000 SF building at a signalized intersection by I-290, zoned Highway Business, for sale at $1,000,000 or for lease at $30.00/SF NNN.
To Buy: Thai House, East Brookfield
Or own the restaurant outright.
355 East Main Street is a 1,966 SF restaurant building on 0.30 acres on Route 9 between Spencer and the Brookfields, and Thai House operates there today.
The kitchen is built. It is fully built out with a hooded cook line, and there is a dining room and a bar with seating for 50, plus storage in the basement and on the upper level. The furniture and equipment go with the business, and so do its all-alcohol license and Keno agency.
30 parking spaces on 108 feet of Route 9 frontage with two curb cuts, which is a lot of parking for a building this size.
$400,000 for the building. The owner will sell the Thai House business separately for $300,000, so you can buy a running restaurant or just the real estate.
Market Snapshot
Retail space in the Worcester market
$17.88
Avg Retail Rent per SF/Year
3.3%
Retail Vacancy
51,000
Cars a Day by the New Bedford Pad
14,000
Cars a Day by Thai House
Restaurants lease from the same retail stock as every other storefront. Across the Worcester market retail asking rent averages $17.88 per square foot a year on a triple-net basis and vacancy is 3.3% as of Q3 2026. Buying is the other way in: Thai House is $400,000 for the building with its kitchen in it.
Common Questions
Frequently Asked Questions
Our restaurant sites to lease are listed on this page: a former bank with its drive-thru at 440 Mt Pleasant Street in New Bedford at $18.00/SF NNN, and a corner building by I-290 at 606 Southbridge Street in Auburn at $30.00/SF NNN. If neither fits, send us your size, seats, budget and towns and we will tell you when a kitchen comes open, including space that is never publicly listed.
Up to three, all through the town. A common victualler license from the select board or licensing board (MGL chapter 140, section 2); a food establishment permit from the board of health, which never transfers from the last operator, so you apply, pay and pass an inspection; and, to serve alcohol, a license under chapter 138, section 12, which the town grants with the state ABCC’s approval and which towns can issue only up to a quota. Ask whether the previous tenant’s liquor license can be transferred to you before you sign.
Yes. 355 East Main Street in East Brookfield, home of Thai House, is for sale at $400,000 for the 1,966 SF building, with its built-out kitchen, seating for 50 and 30 parking spaces on Route 9. The Thai House business, with the restaurant's furniture and equipment, is available separately at $300,000.
Often, yes. When an operating restaurant is listed, the real estate and the business are frequently priced separately, as they are at Thai House. An investor can buy the building alone and lease it, and an owner-operator can buy both and keep the restaurant running.